Arts & Culture Carving a place in outer space for the humanities Jennifer L. Roberts.Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer Eileen O’Grady Harvard Staff Writer August 11, 2025 6 min read Cosmos ‘is as weird and astonishing as any great work of art,’ argues Jennifer Roberts, and navigating it requires ‘a new kind of ethics’ Jennifer Roberts is an art historian whose work orbits an unexpected subject: outer space. Fascinated by images that are created as a way of understanding ...